State v. Bruley

How courts have described this case

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• finding trial court without authority to impose a sentence of \not more or less than nine months\
• finding trial court without authority to impose a sentence of “not more or less than nine months”
• finding sentence illegal where it had the same maximum and minimum terms in violation of 13 V.S.A. § 7031
• noting 1970 amendment substituting permissive for mandatory language reflected legislative intent to make setting of minimum term discretionary such that “[court] could establish the maximum time for confinement without reference to a lesser time”
• reversing sentence of \not more or less than nine months\ (quotation marks omitted)
• reversing sentence of “not more or less than nine months” (quotation marks omitted)

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